is it considered good practice to ...

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is it considered good practice to return a reference to a function defined inside a function for the caller (or code it pass the reference along to) to call? would it matter for this if lambda was used?

note: this means the function that defined the function whose reference is returned, does return before that defined function gets called.

my coding intention is to eliminate a lot of tests in the function that are testing the same thing in each many calls with a choice definition that does only what is needed every time.  it does work, but i want to know how much flak i will get for doing it.